[X4U] Re: YIPPEE! - Quad 2.5 GHz

Philip J Robar pjrobar at areyoureallythatstupid.org
Sat Oct 22 02:55:26 PDT 2005


On Oct 22, 2005, at 2:35 AM, Eugene wrote:

>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:40:56PM CDT, revDAVE  
>> <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can someone explain if all or just some apps will take advantage  
>> of quad processors?
>
> All OSX-native apps are multi-threaded and thus benefit from any  
> multi-proc system.

Umm, no they're not. Applications must be explicitly coded to use  
multiple threads. This is a non-trivial task.


Phil
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